The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] connected Monday sought to politically implicate the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State enactment successful the decease by suspected termination of the party’s Thirumala ward councillor, K. Anil Kumar, by demanding a constabulary investigation.
CPI(M) territory caput V. Joy alleged that the BJP-controlled cooperative nine headed by Mr. Anil Kumar, Valiyasala Farm Tour Society, incurred monolithic debt, an estimated ₹6 crore, aft borrowers, astir of them BJP leaders, dodged indebtedness repayment.
Mr. Joy said Mr. Anil Kumar’s entreaties for governmental and fiscal enactment from the BJP State leadership, including Rajiv Chandrasekhar, to reassure depositors clamouring for their wealth fell connected deaf ears.
“Mr. Chandrasekhar has himself admitted connected societal media that Mr. Anil Kumar had called connected him 2 days earlier the latter’s tragic suicide,” helium stated.
Mr. Joy accused the BJP enactment of attempting to fend disconnected the wrath of its rank-and-file by falsely blaming the constabulary and authorities for Anil Kumar’s death.
‘BJP’s face’
Mr. Joy said Mr. Anil Kumar was the BJP’s look successful Thiruvananthapuram for decades.
“Mr. Anil Kumar’s feeling of being forsaken by his enactment successful a clip of profound idiosyncratic crisis, seemingly not of his making, is painfully evident successful his termination note, itemised arsenic transgression country grounds by the police. The councillor besides signalled his isolation successful the BJP by mounting speech ₹10,000 successful a sealed envelope to wage for his funeral,” Mr. Joy said.
Mr. Joy said Anil Kumar’s woman had expressed the family’s heavy disenchantment with the BJP enactment erstwhile Mr. Chandrasekhar and the party’s territory president, Karamana Jayan, called connected her connected Sunday.
Mr. Joy said, consequently, the leaders did not be Anil Kumar’s funeral, contempt the councillor’s agelong innings successful BJP politics. Mr. Joy noted that Anil Kumar was successful enactment to beryllium the BJP’s municipality territory president erstwhile the enactment “surprisingly chose” Mr Jayan.
He said Anil Kumar’s decease had widened the fissures successful the “faction-riven” BJP. “BJP person V. Muraleedharan, who seemingly has an axe to grind with Mr. Chandrasekhar, has demanded a constabulary investigation. The CPI(M) backs his demand,” helium said.

Meanwhile, the vigilance helping of the State Cooperation Department has initiated an enquiry into the alleged fiscal irregularities successful the society. Mr. Joy demanded that the authorities bring astatine slightest eleven BJP-run cooperative societies accused of swindling hundreds of depositors of their beingness savings. Meanwhile, the BJP has denied immoderate relation with the nine and termed it Anil Kumar’s idiosyncratic enterprise.

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